British Knife Legislation Proposals

A. Creating offences to prevent knives being sold online and being delivered to a private residential address and ensuring age and identity of the
purchaser are checked

Knives would be sent to a collection point and purchasers would have to produce identification papers when picking up.

B. Making it an offence to possess certain weapons in private

"Weapons" held for cultural, artistic or religious reasons and those held by collectors may be subject to registration. Many large blades are
agricultural tools. Axes are mostly used for wood processing. I find the use of the word weapons rather ignorant.

Theatrical suppliers would be affected. Interesting 'point' here.

“What about plastic blades?”

I don’t carry them. Plastic breaks more easily than steel, and then you have a very sharp stick with the same potential for danger as a real weapon.
Steel is safer.

C. Making it an offence to possess a knife or offensive weapon in educational institutions other than schools

What is the definition of school?

D. Amending the offences of threatening with an article with a blade or point, or an offensive weapon

The new proposals are built around a theoretical "reasonable person". Seems a bit hazy.

E. Updating the definition of a flick knife

There are many knives that can be opened as quick, or almost as quick as an old flick knife. Peasant knives may fall under the proposed definition.
The opening technique is at 1:45.

There are proposals for acid and corrosive liquid restrictions.

.50 calibre rifles and rapid firing rifles are also proposed to be banned. I don't use them for bushcraft much but I'd like to know a few of my
neighbours had them in case of rogue government.

Comment here from the Forest School Association.

. . . a threat is open to interpretation. For example some one may be holding a knife pointing toward someone a distance away and the person
may interpret this as threatening even though the person holding the knife is not doing this in a threatening way. This needs to be reworded to avoid
any misuse of this law change.

C. Making it an offence to possess a knife or offensive weapon in educational institutions other than schools

Other than culinary schools maybe..? makes it hard to cook without knives

One of Canada's cities (Saskatoon, I think), tried to ban knives from people in public.
It didn't work, there are too many outdoor workers, that have to carry a knife to cut through things. Or they need it in their vehicle for when they
need to cut through something.

originally posted by: PheonixReborn
I really don't see this as effective legislation. Most of the feral children here in the UK are armed with kitchen knives. It would be very difficult
to legislate against that type of knife.

Exactly what I thought, besides, knife carry laws are restrictive already, but still they kill each other.
New laws won't change a thing.
Some communities are simply broken and need help.

Utterly absurd. Its your country, you can do as you want, but as an outdoorsman Id be apoplectic. I have a half dozen different blades for foraging
alone.

Baseball bats and crowbars will be next, then what...no martial arts?

They are trying to ban everythiung off the face of the Earth. More laws all trhetime it driving me mad, then more taxes. Laws for this taxes for that
tax laws tax laws laws tax laws tax. big brother 'what you need to know' as it wags its figure. Saw it on health and safety poster in the factory,
Ukranian mate said it was John Kerry, in hindsight its the governors

Trouble is they breed at a faster rate than non-smeg heads. Kids having kids these days.
EDIT
I actually know a 31 year old woman who is already a grandmother, no hope for her grandchild in my opinion, tragic.

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